# Geneos Xtender (preview) allows you to easily use Nagios compatible plugins with Geneos

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**Category:** Geneos\
**Tags:** netprobe\
**Created:** [2 August 2023 09:47 UTC](https://community.itrsgroup.com/t/geneos-xtender-preview-allows-you-to-easily-use-nagios-compatible-plugins-with-geneos/218 "2023-08-02T09:47:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [2 August 2023 09:47 UTC](https://community.itrsgroup.com/t/geneos-xtender-preview-allows-you-to-easily-use-nagios-compatible-plugins-with-geneos/218/1 "2023-08-02T09:47:20Z")

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We’ve recently released an early preview of [Geneos Xtender](https://github.com/ITRS-Group/geneos-xtender) to the public under the Apache-2.0 license. Geneos Xtender allows you to use any Nagios-compatible plugin with Geneos through the Toolkit plugin. It includes a powerful way to configure these plugins using [templates](https://github.com/ITRS-Group/geneos-xtender#xtender-templates) that can be used to monitor any number of managed entities through variables and [ranges](https://github.com/ITRS-Group/geneos-xtender#ranges).

This means that you now can use any of the thousands of compatible plugins available, greatly extending the reach of Geneos to a wide range of devices. We’re very excited about the possibilities here, and I personally look forward to hearing about how you will use this functionality.

Here is an example data view showing the xtender output.

 ![metrics_dataview](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/itrsgroup/original/1X/fc2793b96fa7d9c5bda4e170cf62f5fb9aa8349a.jpeg)

I recommend setting up dedicated Xtender Netprobes using a recent version of RHEL or Debian. There are both deb-files and rpm-files available for the xtender binary.

For more information, head over to [the GitHub page](https://github.com/ITRS-Group/geneos-xtender) and read the full instructions there.